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Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage today about attempts by the authorities in the state of Western Australia to blackmail the management of The West Australian newspaper. Attorney-general Jim McGinty threatened to withdraw state advertising and to not implement a proposed shield law protecting journalists’ sources unless editor Paul Armstrong is fired. "We condemn the Western Australia...

New York, May 22, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Philippine government to undertake a thorough and timely investigation into today’s shooting death of freelance photographer Dodie Nuñez. Local media reports said Nuñez was shot by three men who used a motorcycle to intercept the minibus in which he was riding in the town of General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite province. Initial...

New York, May 22, 2007—A freelance photographer on assignment for Time magazine in insurgency-hit southern Thailand was injured in a bomb blast today, according to news reports. Australian Philip Blenkinsop was among seven people injured by the improvised explosive device, which detonated in Yala province. The bomb was planted near the body of a man who had been murdered by suspected Muslim rebels...

Some 54 Chicago Tribune newsroom staffers want to take the newspaper's buyout offer -- far short of as many as 100 jobs that the newspaper publisher said it wants to eliminate companywide, sources said Monday. But workers from other departments were also eligible to put in for the buyouts, which could eliminate the need for layoffs. Newsroom employees expect to find out by next week if they will...

May 21, 2007 · The news value of a Texas newspaper story about two married attorneys accused of extorting thousands from the wife's lovers overshadows privacy concerns about the article, a federal appeals court ruled last week. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans (5th Cir.) affirmed the decision by a lower court judge who dismissed a lawsuit accusing the San Antonio Express-News of invading...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has voiced its shock and outrage after Cambodia's prime minister reportedly publicly dismissed a journalist as "insolent" and "rude" for asking questions. Prime Minister Hun Sen attacked RFA radio reporter Keo Nimol on Thursday, May 17, after Keo questioned the future of the coalition between the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and the...

NEW YORK When you've got one of the largest, most successful newspaper Web sites in the country (and the world), making major changes to your homepage can be a big roll of the dice. Your users have grown used to your site and branding, they rely on it to get their news there every day, and, no matter how the changes improve the site, some are going to miss things the way they were. Still, if a...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today welcomed a decision by European institutions to exclude violations of privacy and defamation from the draft regulation that would determine which country’s law is applicable in cross-border disputes. The Rome II Regulation provides that in non-contractual disputes, as a general rule, the law of the EU Member State in which the damage arises or is...

Tajikistan has plenty of media outlets – at least 380 of them at the latest count – but almost all are short of staff. One major reason for this is that university journalism courses are under-funded and use old-fashioned teaching methods, and are failing to produce enough graduates with the skills to slot into the vacancies. Concerned at the staff shortages, the media community is looking at ways...

New York City’s two free daily tabloids usually compete by seeing how many papers they can shove into the hands of subway riders. Now they are going head-to-head on a different platform — a digital one. Metro New York, owned by Metro International, is planning a new Web site that may improve its position against its rival, amNew York, which is owned by the Tribune Company. AmNew York already has a...